#music

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#madame-bovary #music #speech #love

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words. ↗

— Bill Haley

#easy #just #main #main thing #music

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#better #better place #came #fields #gospel

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#back #bigger #breaks #get #how

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#classical #classical music #close #contemporary #doing

In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#doing #i #musicals #out #shakespeare

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. ↗

— John Lithgow

#become #broadway #comedy #long-running #musical

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. ↗

— Witold Lutoslawski

#cannot #concentrate #destroyed #lifts #music

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music. ↗